README

Personal Website

Live Site →

Overview

This repository contains the source for my personal website built with R Markdown and the Distill framework, hosted on GitHub Pages. The site features:

• Home page introduction
  
• About page with academic background
  
• Teaching page detailing courses supported
  
• Projects page showcasing recent work
  
• Research page summarizing interests
  
• CV page with a downloadable resume

Repository Structure

Prerequisites

• R (version ≥ 4.0)
  

• RStudio or any R IDE
  

• R packages:

  install.packages(c("rmarkdown", "distill"))

  remotes::install_github("rstudio/distill")

• Git (for version control)

• GitHub account (for hosting the website)

• Quarto (for advanced features)

Building the Site Locally

1. Render the site (generates HTML in docs/):

rmarkdown::render_site()

2. Preview (in RStudio): Build → Preview Site Or from the console:

rmarkdown::run("index.Rmd", shiny_args = list(port = 4321))

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

Contact

• Email: nmathlouthi@ucsb.edu
• GitHub: @narjesmath